Short biography
I was born in Madrid and raised in San Fernando de Henares. I started my Telecommunications Engineering studies in 1994 at ETSI Telecomunicacion, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. During my studies, I worked in several companies as a part-time internship (De La Rue Cash Systems, RYMSA and Telefonica R&D). I finished my studies in 2001, while I was already working at the Spanish mobile operator Amena.
Two years after, in January 2003, I decided to start my Ph. D. studies at ATVS (Speech and Signal Processing Group), at DIAC department of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. I work under the supervision of Dr. Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez. In October 2003 I obtained a Ph. D. scholarship from Comunidad Autonoma de Madrid (CAM). In late 2004 we moved our whole lab to Escuela Politecnica Superior, at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. There, I have obtained a position as an Assistant Professor. I have obtained my Ph. D. degree there in December the 20th 2007.
My research interests are focused on signal processing, pattern recognition and statistics, with applications to biometric systems and forensic evaluation of the evidence. I currently participate in public and private projects and contracts related to these topics.
Apart from the Ph. D. Scholarship from Comunidad Autonoma de Madrid (CAM), I have received several awards and distinctions, such as the IBM Research Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Odyssey 2006 international conference, or the COIT - BANESTO award to the Best PhD Thesis on Information and Communication Technologies applied to Banking. Also, I regularly participate in international evaluations of speaker and language recognition technology, such as NIST SRE since 2004, NIST LRE since 2007, NFI-TNO Forensic SRE 2003 or the Albayzin evaluations from the Spanish RTTH. I am also used to participate in different committees in national and international conferences, and I am often invited to give talks in different scientific fora. I am a member of the IEEE and ISCA.
